It'll be exactly as stated in the last update: latecomer will have not fulfilled his side of the ultimatum and they'll move on to the less-than-ideal solution. Still have a couple weeks left before that though so hopefully latecomer is pulling a lot of late nights right now to get this done. Guess we'll see soon enough
Last I remember seeing Latecomer was still limited on how much time they could spend working. With nothing else said about it, and Bluecat issuing an ultimatum, I'm guessing work is still going but not the typical extra hours of crunch time.
waiting for merge....a little over a year
The person doing the coding for the merge was given an ultimatum, get it done before the end of the year or else. BC has not stated what the else option is yet, but probably no merge, maybe a simpler interface just to get something out. We will know more by the end of the year.
There is one problem while Bluecat probably has continued to write and made new "renders" there is the little problem that he writes in German and the programmer who slowed the merge down is also the translator for the game. In the last status update, Bluecat said he looking for a translator but who knows if he found someone.
If they'd known it would be like this from the beginning then this would have been the better option. The problem is they never actually knew how close or far it was (and from one of the updates it sounds like latecomer has been spouting bullshit to the rest of the team which makes it hard to estimate) and once they put x amount of work in it would make no sense to restart and lose all that work. Plus having to restart all your work can be really daunting and even depressing to creators and might actually delay further depending on the team
lets be honest, no dev would wait someone for a year while losing patreon...
I agree that most people wouldn't wait this long for a programmer while losing money, but is it that easy to find a reliable programmer that is willing to work on an adult game, especially one with with some very taboo content? Working on adult games is not really something that people usually want to have on their CV.
Finding programmers is easy, however getting them up to speed on the specific code that was used in Ecchi Sensei was the problem if I recall correctly.
Here's something that probably hasn't been asked? Let's say nothing comes out this year, Latecomer is sacked for failing his duties (assuming?) and BlueCat moves into Plan C (Maybe he called it B, I'm called it C since we're over a year late) how long into the next year are we going to be waiting for *anything* to come out? Mid next year? Has worked even started on this other plan in the case of the likely scenario it has to be done?
The ones going for a specific route since only a selected few will be into all of the characters
Hopefully that's plan B, at this point releasing the basic game and releasing updates as patches is far better that release things that will become uncompatible later on
Yandev managed to procrastinate for almost a decade and Fenoxo might break that record with Trials in Tainted Space being close to their 9 year of developement, he still get like 30k monthy and to top it off, it's a text game, the only images are portraits of characters, a very selected few have more that 1 picture
Some programmers explained to me that well.. programming is like art, everyone has their own style, so for the sake of the argument, imagine calling Picaso to finish a work from Vangoh or Da Vinci
This is true to some degree but it mostly comes down to just variable naming and how you make comments in your code. Sometimes different programmers have preference of one solution over another but it doesn't mean another programmer can't take on the project or adapt it to their style. Most of the time programmers are actually working in teams and if they aren't following the standards and conventions then they are either way too inexperienced for a project like this anyway or are an asshole.
